I am a current "iCadet".
What current CX pilots are saying here is very true.
At the moment my lifestyle is borderline satisfactory. It's certainly not great, or even "good". Eventually you will aspire for it to be more than satisfactory but under these terms it never will be. Please seriously consider exactly what I am saying because CX is a massive long-term commitment.
I'm not going to go into why its rubbish, for example the lack of job satisfaction as an SO, taking forever to upgrade, not being able to afford to do anything remotely interesting in Hong Kong, the fact your partner will almost certainly not want to live here etc etc. There are some positives, but the negatives outweight them ten-fold for me.
Looking back, I was incredibly naive to believe all the bull**** they told me about basings, upgrades etc. Its nothing like I thought it would be, or wanted it to be.
If you aspire to have any kind of lifestyle long-term then I strongly urge you to consider every other option before consider coming here.